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tion of the " Organographie " and of the " Physiologie Vege- 

 t ale," and — not to mention a hundred other botanical and 

 sundry miscellaneous writings, of greater or smaller extent — 

 of seven out of the present fifteen volumes of the " Prodro- 

 mus." Only one botanist of the present century — and one 

 happily who still survives — has accomplished an equal 

 amount of work, and good work, in systematic botany. 



Our account has run on to such a length that we cannot touch 

 upon De Candolle's social and domestic life — of which the 

 memoirs reveal pleasant glimpses, nor of his useful and hon- 

 orable life as a Genevan and Swiss citizen. Nor can we now 

 venture to gather interesting anecdotes from his notices of 

 friends, visitors, pupils, and collaborators ; nor notice his 

 methods of working, and his capital arrangements for secur- 

 ing and classifying details and economizing time. 



It is not for us to pronounce upon De Candolle's relative 

 rank in the hierarchy of naturalists. He incidentally once 

 speaks of Brown and himself as rivals for the botanical 

 sceptre. It is natural that they should be compared, or 

 rather contrasted ; for they were the complements of each 

 other in almost every respect The fusion of the two would 

 have made a perfect botanist. But De Candolle's facility for 

 generalization, zeal, and industry were as much above, as 

 his depth of insight and analytical power were below Brown's. 

 The one longed, the other loathed, to bring forth all he knew. 

 The editor compares De Candolle's traits of character with 

 those of Linnaeus, as delineated by Fabricius, and finds much 

 resemblance. But his impress upon the science, however 

 broad and good, can hardly be compared with that of Lin- 

 naeus. 



